Car Salesman

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Rated one of the least trustworthy jobs in this year’s Gallup Poll of Honesty and Ethics in Professions, car dealers have a notorious reputation for pressurized selling, misrepresentation and generally deceptive practices. Because salespeople often work entirely on commission, the pressure is on to take as much money from you as possible. While they won’t normally lie outright, there are many "lies of omission." Tricks of the trade include switch selling (luring in consumers with the promise of a deal sellers have no intention of offering), low balling (when sellers offer a low price other dealerships can’t match, but later claim that they can no longer offer that price) and sucking back (when the buyers are offered less for their trade-in than what it is actually worth, then sold a newer model at a substantially lower price).